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in reply to Should I use carp/croak or warn/die

Personally speaking I prefer to use carp/croak when it's the fault of the caller and warn/die when it's the fault of the current sub. That way the message is appropriately relevant. I'm unaware of any recommendation of best practice which says always to use one or the other.

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Re^2: Should I use carp/croak or warn/die
by haukex (Archbishop) on May 30, 2018 at 15:11 UTC
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      Honestly, I did almost add "but it's probably in PBP somewhere" to my previous post. :-) Thanks for the reference, though.

      Note that even there it's an arbitrary distinction as perlcritic won't moan at newline-terminated warn/die calls.

      $ echo 'package Foo; use strict; use warnings; warn "foo!"; 1;' | perl
+critic -3
"warn" used instead of "carp" at line 1, column 40.  See page 283 of P
+BP.  (Severity: 3)
$ echo 'package Foo; use strict; use warnings; warn "foo!\n"; 1;' | pe
+rlcritic -3
source OK
$

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      Thanks for the reference. Although I don't agree with all of the recommendations of perl critic, I have learned a lot from reading through it's suggestions. I'll go back and reread this section for sure.
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